• PULP
adj. like or pert. to pulp (see noun) …Bk1974 sl.
n. 1. a magazine printed on cheap, rough, pulp paper …Bk1974 Amer.sl.
n. 2. a story or article of stereotyped design and sensational contents, usually written for purely commercial ends …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
n. 3. any magazine devoted to sensational and ephemeral literature, as cowboy and detective stories and the like …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
• PULP FICTION
n. fiction dealing with lurid or sensational subjects, often printed on rough, low-quality paper manufactured from wood pulp …1950 Amer.
• PULPIT
n. the female genitals …17C sl. obs.
• PULPIT-CUFFER
n. a Bible-pounding preacher …19C Brit. colloq.
• PULPITEER
n. a preacher by profession …1635 usually disparaging usage
• PULPITER
n. a preacher by profession …1635 usually disparaging usage
• PULSE
n. 1. a woman’s sexual parts in ‘feel her pulse’; the vagina …M17 Brit. sl.
n. 2. an erect penis …19C sl.
• PULSE ACCELERATOR
n. a loved one; a sweetheart …Bk1892 Amer. sl.
• PULSE UPPERER
n. a loved one; a sweetheart …Bk1892 Amer. sl.
• PULTROUS
adj. lustful, lascivious, lecherous …1788 Sc. obs.
• PULY
adj. whining, querulous …L17
• PUMBLECHOOK
n. a stupid person; a fool; an oaf; a ‘human ass’ …L19 Brit. & US sl.
• PUMFRITS
n. fried potatoes; (French ‘pommes frites’) …World War I Amer sl.
• PUMIL
adj. dwarf, dwarfish, diminutive …1776 obs. rare
• PUMILIO
n. a dwarf; a diminutive person or plant …1576 obs. rare
• PUMKIN
n. 1. the human head …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
n. 2. a small town or rural community; a rustic place; a town in the sticks …Bk1974 Amer. carnival, circus, & theatre use
n. 3. a football …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
• PUMMEL
vb. to skateboard fearlessly without regard to the effect on the board or body …1984 US sl.
• PUMMELLED
adj. very drunk …1990 US sl.
• PUMP
n. 1. the female genitals …17C Brit. sl.
n. 2. the penis …17C sl.
n. 3. a breaking of wind …19C Brit. sl.
n. 4. a breast …E20 US
n. 5. the heart …1946 US sl.
n. 6. an illegal linear amplifier for a citizens’ band radio …1976 US sl.
n. 7. a fire hydrant …1979 UK sl.
n. 8. a fart …1985 Sc. sl.
n. 9. sexual intercourse …Brit. sl.
vb. 1. to interrogate someone …1656 UK sl.
vb. 2. of a male: to copulate …1730 UK & Amer. sl.
vb. 3. to masturbate …19C sl., chiefly Brit.
vb. 4. to urinate …19C Brit. & US sl.
vb. 5. to vomit …19C Brit. sl.
vb. 6. to fart …1937 N. Ireland sl.
vb. 7. to obtain a free ride …1965 Barbados sl.
vb. 8. in poker: to increase a bet made by another player …1983 US sl.
vb. 9. to sell drugs. esp. crack cocaine …1989 UK sl.
vb. 10. to exert yourself in a labour …1992 US sl.
• PUMPAGE
n. sexual intercourse …20C Brit. sl.
• PUMP-DALE
n. the female genitals …E18 Brit. sl.
• PUMPED
adj. pregnant …M20 US sl.
• PUMPED UP
adj. pregnant …20C Amer. sl.
• PUMPER
n. the heart …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
• PUMP-HANDLE
n. 1. the penis …E18 Brit. sl.
n. 2. a salute …World War I Amer sl.
• PUMPKIN
n. 1. the female genitals …19C US sl.
n. 2. a small town or rural community; a rustic place; a town in the sticks …Bk1974 Amer. carnival, circus, & theatre use
n. 3. the human head …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
n. 4. a football …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
• PUMPKIN-COVER
n. the female public hair …19C US sl.
• PUMPKIN-FACE
n. a round face with no expression on it …1881
• PUMPKIN HEAD
n. a slow or dim-witted person; a dunce; a stupid person; an oaf …1775 Amer. sl.
• PUMPKIN RINDS
n. shoulder straps as insignia of military rank, usually yellow …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• PUMPKIN-ROLLER
n. a farmer …c1905 Amer. sl.
• THE PUMPKINS
n. something excellent …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• PUMPKIN SEED
n. a tablet of mescaline …M20 US drug culture sl.
• PUMPLEFOOT
n. clubfoot …Bk1913 Amer. dial.
• PUMPLE-FOOTED
adj. club-footed …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• PUMP OFF
vb. to masturbate …19C sl.
• PUMP ONESELF OFF
vb. to masturbate …19C sl., chiefly Brit.
• PUMP ONE’S PICKLE
vb. to masturbate …20C sl., orig. Can.
• PUMP ONE’S PYTHON
vb. of a male: to masturbate …20C sl.
• PUMP-OUT
vb. to urinate…Brit. sl. Brit
• PUMPS
n. 1. the female breasts …E20 US sl.
n. 2. tennis shoes, trainers …Brit. schoolchildren’s usage
• PUMP SHIP
vb. 1. to urinate …1788 sl., orig. nautical usage
vb. 2. to vomit …18C sl.
• PUMP THE STUMP
vb. to shake hands …1947 US sl.
• PUMPTURE
n. a puncture, tire trouble …1991 Irish sl.
• PUMP UP YOUR TIRE!
int. you bore me! …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• PUNAANY
n. the vagina …UK Black sl.
• PUNCE
n. 1. an effeminate male; a homosexual male …20C Aust. sl.
n. 2. the female genitals …20C Aust. & Brit. sl.
• PUNCH
n. 1. energy, vigour, vitality …1911 sl., orig. US
n. 2. force; meaning; pungency …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
n. 3. women considered as sexual objects …18C sl.
n. 4. a killing, as in the stock market, etc.; a coup …1900s Aust. sl.
vb. 1. to copulate …18C sl.
vb. 2. to deflower …19C sl.
vb. 3. to drive or round up; to work as a cowboy; used of cattle and tourists …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
vb. 4. to deliver lines in a play, musical passage or the like with vigour …20C
• PUNCHABLE
adj. pert. to a woman who desires copulation …18C sl.
• PUNCHABLE NUN
n. a prostitute …20C Brit. sl.
• PUNCH AWAY
vb. to keep trying or working, esp. in difficult or discouraging circumstances; to persevere …colloq.
• PUNCH-BOARD
n. a promiscuous woman …1963 sl., derogatory
• PUNCH-DRUNK
adj. 1. befuddled; dazed; groggy or dizzy for any reason; mentally or emotionally exhausted, esp. from a series of failures or personal misfortunes …1915 Amer.
adj. 2. of a boxer: having a concussion caused by repeated blows to the head …1915 Amer.
• PUNCHER
n. 1. a cowboy …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
n. 2. a telegraph operator …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
• PUNCHINELLO
n. a grotesque or absurd person or thing
• PUNCHING BAG
n. a person serving as an object of abuse; a scapegoat …1911 colloq.
• PUNCH LINE
n. 1. the last line, sentence, or part of a joke that gives it meaning and humour …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
n. 2. the last line, sentence, or part of a story, experience, or incident that gives it meaning or an unexpected ending …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
• PUNCH LIST
n. a list of unfinished matters that require attention …Bk2001 colloq.
• PUNCH-OUT
n. a fistfight or brawl …1969
(verbs usually as ‘punch out’)
vb. 1. to beat up or knock out with the fists…1893, orig. US
vb. 2. to leave; to quit; to abandon …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
vb. 3. to bail out, to eject from an aircraft …20C
• PUNCH SOMEONE’S LIGHTS OUT
vb. to knock someone unconscious …1966 Amer. sl.
• PUNCH THE BAG
vb. to complain; to talk at length, to gossip, to chat …1901 Amer. sl.
• PUNCH-UP
n. a fistfight or brawl …1955 sl.
vb. (usually as ‘punch up’) to enliven, as with fresh ideas or additional material …colloq.
• PUNCHY
adj. 1. short and stout, thickset, squat, stumpy; having a large paunch …1791
adj. 2. dazed or stupefied from severe or continual punching …B1900 sl.
adj. 3. full of punch or vigour; forceful; being or appearing vigorously effective; energetic, vigorous, lively …1926 sl.
adj. 4. punch-drunk …20C sl.
n. a nickname applied disparagingly to any person, implying that he is confused, or mentally subnormal from, or as though from, blows on the head …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
• PUNCHY-FAT
adj. very fat …1968 Amer. dial.
• PUNCK; PUNCKE
n. a prostitute; a sexually loose woman …16C Brit. sl.
• PUNCTILIOUS
adj. extremely attentive to details, ceremony, or procedure; strict or exact in the observance of formalities or amenities …1625
• PUNCTURE
vb. 1. to have sex with a woman …19C sl.
vb. 2. to deflower …19C Brit. sl.
• PUNCTURED
adj. drunk …20C Brit. sl.
• PUNCTURE ONE’S BALLOON
vb. to humiliate …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• PUNDIT
n. 1. a learned person, expert, or authority …17C
n. 2. a person who makes comments or judgements, esp. in an authoritative manner; a critic or commentator …17C
• PUNGEY
adj. intoxicated with alcohol …18C US sl.
• PUNISH
vb. to eat or drink copiously …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
• PUNISH PERCY IN THE PALM
vb. of a male: to masturbate …20C sl.
• PUNISH THE POPE
vb. to masturbate …1980s sl.
• PUNK
adj. of poor quality; bad; inferior; unwell …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
n. 1. a prostitute; a sexually loose woman …16C Brit. sl.
n. 2. a lackey; a waiter; a porter …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
n. 3. a liquid or salve sold as a household remedy; patent medicine …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
n. 4. a bumptious but insignificant or contemptible person …19C sl.
n. 5. a homosexual male …19C US sl.
n. 6. a weak person; a useless jerk, usually a male; a worthless man; an ineffectual or incompetent person …M19 US sl.
n. 7. bread …c1880 Amer. sl.
n. 8. a catamite …E20 US criminals’ sl.
n. 9. in logging: a worker, formerly often a boy, who signals the operation of log-hauling machinery by controlling the whistle of the ‘donkey engine’ …1909 Amer. dial.
n. 10. a small-time or petty criminal …1917 Amer. sl.
n. 11. any young animal, esp. a baby lion …Bk1942 Amer. circus sl.
n. 12. a woman who performs ‘penilingus’ …M20 US criminals’ sl.
n. 13. any male; a chum; a young fellow …M20 US sl. & colloq.
n. 14. inferior marijuana …M20 US drug culture sl.
n. 15. a petty hoodlum; one who thinks he wants to be a hoodlum but lacks real toughness and experience …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
n. 16. a young or inexperienced person; a boy tramp or child hobo; a boy, youth, or beginner; a young prisoner; a child or adolescent of either sex; a youngster …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
n. 17. an adherent of a youth sub-culture first coalescing in 1976 around punk rock music …1970s sl.
n. 18. an inferior or unimportant person …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
n. 19. an inferior prizefighter, jockey, pool player, etc. …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
vb. 1. to pimp …17C Brit. sl.
vb. 2. to procure customers for a prostitute …17C Brit. sl.
• PUNK AND WHITE WINE
n. bread and water …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• PUNK-ASS
adj. of a person: unpleasant, deplorable …1972 US sl.
• PUNKAWN
n. a talkative, self-assertive person …1943 Irish sl.
• PUNKER
n. 1. a whoremonger …17C Brit. sl.
n. 2. a greenhorn …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
• PUNKETTE
n. a young female punk rocker …20C sl.
• PUNKIN
n. 1. the human head …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
n. 2. a small town or rural community; a rustic place; a town in the sticks …Bk1974 Amer. carnival, circus, & theatre use
n. 3. a football …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
• PUNKIN-HEAD
n. a stupid person; an oaf or dolt …19C Amer. dial.
• PUNKIN ROLLER
n. 1. a farmer …c1905 Amer. sl.
n. 2. any outsider; a person who is not from your community, and doesn’t belong …1949 Amer. dial.
• THE PUNKINS
n. something excellent …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• PUNKISH
adj. somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• PUNK-KID
n. a homosexual boy or catamite …M20 sl.
• PUNK OUT
vb. to lose one’s nerve, to avoid doing something out of fear …1920 US sl.
• PUNKY
adj. 1. of a public performance: poor …Bk1905 Amer. dial.
adj. 2. somewhat ill; indisposed …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• PUNQUE
n. a prostitute; a sexually loose woman …16C Brit. sl.
• PUNSE
n. the female genitals …19C sl.
• PUNTA
n. the odour of vaginal secretions …2000s African-American sl.
• PUNTAM
n. a lively person, esp. a woman of low stature …20C Irish sl.
• PUNT AROUND
n. an attempt to find someone or something …1970s sl.
vb. to try one’s luck, esp. when looking for a person …1970s sl.
• PUNTER
n. 1. a criminal, esp. one who assists as a confederate …1891 sl.
n. 2. a customer or client; often used dismissively …1965 sl.
n. 3. a gambler, a speculator …20C Brit. sl.
• PUNY
adj. not in good health …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• PUP
n. 1. a vain fop …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
n. 2. the penis …M20 sl.
• PU-PAP
n. a grandfather …1967 Amer. dial.
• PUPPIES
n. nipples …20C homosexual sl.
• PUPPRELLE
n. a little puppy …1583 obs. rare
• PUPPY
n. a vain fop …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• PUPPY FAT
n. fatness in a young person, which supposedly soon disappears …1937 sl.
• PUPPY-HOLE
n. at Eton College: a pupil-room, in which pupils work with their tutors …1922 sl.
• PUPPY LOVE
n. temporary affection between very young people …1834
• PUPPY-SHOW
adj. foolish, ridiculous …L19 W. Indies
n. foolishness, showing off; one who makes a stupid exhibition of themselves …L19 W. Indies
vb. to make a fool of someone …L19 W. Indies
• PURE
adj. of drinks: unmixed with water …Bk1902 colloq,
• PURE ELEMENT
n. water …Bk1921 sl.
• PURE MERINO
n. 1. a (descendant of a) voluntary settler in Australia, as opposed to a transported convict, esp. one who finds in this a basis for social pretension …1826 Aust. sl.
n. 2. a snob …1826 Aust. sl.
• PURE-QUILL
adj. genuine …1956 Amer. dial.
adv. genuinely …1956 Amer. dial.
• THE PURE QUILL
n. something that is pure, genuine, of the highest quality …1884 Amer. dial.
• THE PURE QUILL WITH A BEAD ON IT n. something that is pure, genuine, of the highest quality …1916 Amer. dial.
• PURGATORY
n. an unpleasant experience …1807 sl.
• PURLER
n. an excellent thing …1935 sl., chiefly Aust.
• PURP
n. 1. a vain fop …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
n. 2. a dog; a pup …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• PURPLE
adj. extremely pornographic …E20 colloq.
n. 1. a tablet of the stimulant drug Drinamyl™, an amphetamine …1968 sl.
n. 2. LSD; also LSD mixed with methedrine …1968 sl.
• PURPLE HAZE
n. LSD; also LSD mixed with methedrine …1967 sl.
• PURPLE HEART
n. a tablet of the stimulant drug Drinamyl™, an amphetamine …1961 sl.
• PURPLE-HEARTS
n. amphetamine tablets …1950s US sl.
• PURPLE-HELMETED JUNKET GUN
n. the penis …1980s sl.
• PURPLE PASSION
n. a loved one; a sweetheart …Bk1892 Amer. sl.
• PURPLE PORK
n. the penis …M19 sl.
• PURSE
n. 1. the vagina …17C sl.
n. 2. money … Bk1903 sl.
• PURSE-LEECH
n. 1605 obs. – a person greedy for money; a grasping person; an extortioner
• PURSE-PINCHED
adj. 1603 arch. – in straitened circumstances; habitually poor
• PURTIES
n. Irish sl. – little gifts for a girl
• PURTING-GLUMPOT
n. 1837 Eng. dial. – a sulky person
• PURTY
adj. 1960 Irish sl. – pretty
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